Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-12-13

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friends all the year! Uncle Tom SAID
so. Oh, what fun it Isl
.Must /, really?' sighed Gypsy, but
toning her boots with a melancholy
gesture. 80 Leslie. couldn't we just
change Off You could have the valen-
tine Uncle Tom sends, all the same!
Couldn't we change? Does it really
have to be SOP
Leslie pirouettcd, gaily in front OF the
tall mirror. 1t was too tempting a
chance to tease her sister.
..Oh, You'll have to keep your own,
she said. Hes your Valentine and
YOU can't change. / don't see what
makes YOU feel so about him. He just
likes to look at you, that's all. Most
likely he wants to get acquainted.
Well, he'll have n chance, now. What ii
YOU send him. Gypsy? l don't believe
he'll get another Valentine at all.
Wont hep asked the little one,
looking meditatively out of the mist OF
golden hair. as She brushed it out.
HE doesn't look rs if he had any
| friends, p" went on Leslie watching the
effect of her words with dancing eyes.
1t would he such fun .'to tell Of" if
GYPSY could only be persuaded 10 send
! valentine to this 5ete nOir of her ex-
istence. He gives lessons all the tins,
and lectures, and heard papa say he
worked dIeadfully hard. He looks as
If he didn't have n good time, any
how.
May be he gets homesick,' said
tender-hearted Gypsy, falteringly.
Perhaps that's what makes him look
cross, perhaps. Do you sup
pose he ever had ValentineP'
Leslie clapped her hands noiselesslg
behind the table She's all safe to
10 it, now she's got to plying him, y
she said to herself.
'What'll YOU send?' she asked aloud.
you'll have to, of course, Gypsy.
Why, what would he think if You
didn't? May be he just went out there
to hunt up SOM one for Valentine.
You don't want to hurt his feelings?'
Gypsy shook her head, silently. She
finished dressing and went down to
breakfast with '.,e others. very quietly.
Uncle Tom. coming in with great bo>
of candy for his ..Valantine," pinchct
her check and ask ID what the price O;
thoughts was. this morning, but she
only gave him II little laugh for an
swer She was thinking very busily
and earn 9stIy about the dark
face Mt the other end Of the table.
Was h. very lonely. and did he
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and had he never had Valentine? No
body was ia king to him. Would it
hurt his feelings very much if she would
not have him for Valentine? Gypsy
looked over, inquiringly, at that point.
and us usual met the keen eyes fixed on
her. Sac looked straight back into
them this time. flushing slightly, with Il
little, trembling smile Nobody saw it
but the professor himself Could it
have been only that, that made his face
light up so, and brought that smile to
his own stern-set lips? Gypsy Won
dered about the matter good deal, as
she went upstairs. Perhaps she had
been hurting his feelings all this time
Poor Prof Lascelles,
mamma, if you were al alone and
away from all your friends, what kind
of flowers would you like best for a
button-hole bouquet?' said Gypsy.
resolutely an hour or two later She
was standing ut the door with her fur
cap pulled down over her curls, and
her little plush purse in her hand.
| Mrs. HOllister looked at her with a
little perpleXed smile. Leslie had told
her about the episode of the morning
and she had laughed over it and
decided to let Gypsy do as she chose,
without asking questions. 1t might
break up the child's shyness, she
thought, and it could do no harm.
But that little mite sending button
hole bouquet to Prof Lascelles! What
on earth will he say?' thought Mrs.
HolIister, as she laughed outright. a
puzzled, helpless laugh, before she
answered.
"What kind of flowers, mamma"
persisted Gypsy, knitting her soft
orowS. and her mo her answered at
random.
"Oh-violets l should think. Don't
90 farther than the lower-stand at the
corner, Gypsy, and come directly
back"
Il must put a verse to it." thought
the child, climbing the stairs on her
way back. Leslie did for Uncle Tom
And all my Valentines were sent off
yesterday. Bat there's the pretty card
IN my Bible, with the violets on it. that
had from sun lay-school. Eye cot so
many that | can spare that. and if
docsn t matter if it isn't a real Valep-
tine it's 50 pretty. And such pretty
verse. / gaeSs he'll like it.
So the little card was brought ont
and tied to the violets, and the LIVING
flowers lay against the pictured ones
with the tender Bible words lookino
oat between them: BE of good cheer.
have overcome the world And
gypsy with her face very serious and
resolved. Went slowly up the stairs to
the n-'Nt floor, to leave them at Prof
Lascelles door
Mrs. HOLSTER waited to see ncr come
living back, but she did not anne,,.
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